Use this extended bibliography for your independent reading activities. This list was obtained from the 5 Steps to a 5 book. "The following is a select listing of fiction and nonfiction writers, past and present, whose works include: essays, news articles, novels, short stories, journals, biographies, histories, autobiographies, diaries, satire, and political treatises. Each of these writers presents ideas in original, thought-provoking, and enlightening ways. One recommendation is to READ AS MANY AND AS MUCH OF THEM AS YOU CAN! The more you read, discuss, and/or analyze these writers and their work, the better prepared you will be for the AP English Language and Composition exam." Some of these selections will be available in the "related resources" section of the Wiki.
Personal Writing: Journals, Autobiographies, Diaries
Maya Angelou
Annie Dillard
Frederick Dougless
Lillian Hellman
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Mary McCarthy
Samuel Pepys
Richard Rodriguez
May Sarton
Richard Wright
Malcolm X
Biographies and Histories
Walter Jackson Bate
James Boswell
Thomas Carlyle
Bruce Catton
Winston Churchill
Shelby Foote
George Trevelyan
Barbara Tuchman Journalists and Essayists
Joseph Addison
Michael Arlen
Matthew Arnold
Francis Bacon
Russell Baker
Harold Bloom
G.K. Chesterton
Kenneth Clark
Joan Didion
Maureen Dowd
Ellen Goodman
Pauline Kael
Garrison Keillor
John McPhee
N. Scott Momaday
Anna Quindlen
John Rushkin
Marjorie Sandor
Susan Sontag
Richard Steele
Nora Ephron
Anne Fadiman
John Holt
Paul Russell
Henry David Thoreau
Calvin Trillin
Eudora Welty
E.B. White
Paul Zimmer
Political Writing and Satire
Hannah Arendt
Simone de Beauvoir
W.E.B. DuBois
William F. Buckley
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Jefferson
John Locke
Machiavelli
John Stuart Mill
Sir Thomas More
Lincoln Steffens
Jonathan Swift
Alexis de Tocqueville
T.H. White
Tom Wolfe
Writers Known for Fiction and Nonfiction Charlotte Perkins Gilman Zora Neale Hurston Norman Mailer George Orwell Virginia Woolf
Naturalists, Scientists, and Adventurers Edward Abbey Rachel Carson Charles Darwin Loren Eisley Stephen Jay Gould William Least Heat-Moon Verlyn Klinkenborg Barry Lopez Peter Matthiessen Margaret Mead Carl Sagan
"The following is a select listing of fiction and nonfiction writers, past and present, whose works include: essays, news articles, novels, short stories, journals, biographies, histories, autobiographies, diaries, satire, and political treatises. Each of these writers presents ideas in original, thought-provoking, and enlightening ways. One recommendation is to READ AS MANY AND AS MUCH OF THEM AS YOU CAN! The more you read, discuss, and/or analyze these writers and their work, the better prepared you will be for the AP English Language and Composition exam."
Some of these selections will be available in the "related resources" section of the Wiki.
Personal Writing: Journals, Autobiographies, Diaries
Maya Angelou
Annie Dillard
Frederick Dougless
Lillian Hellman
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Mary McCarthy
Samuel Pepys
Richard Rodriguez
May Sarton
Richard Wright
Malcolm X
Biographies and Histories
Walter Jackson Bate
James Boswell
Thomas Carlyle
Bruce Catton
Winston Churchill
Shelby Foote
George Trevelyan
Barbara Tuchman
Journalists and Essayists
Joseph Addison
Michael Arlen
Matthew Arnold
Francis Bacon
Russell Baker
Harold Bloom
G.K. Chesterton
Kenneth Clark
Joan Didion
Maureen Dowd
Ellen Goodman
Pauline Kael
Garrison Keillor
John McPhee
N. Scott Momaday
Anna Quindlen
John Rushkin
Marjorie Sandor
Susan Sontag
Richard Steele
Nora Ephron
Anne Fadiman
John Holt
Paul Russell
Henry David Thoreau
Calvin Trillin
Eudora Welty
E.B. White
Paul Zimmer
Political Writing and Satire
Hannah Arendt
Simone de Beauvoir
W.E.B. DuBois
William F. Buckley
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Jefferson
John Locke
Machiavelli
John Stuart Mill
Sir Thomas More
Lincoln Steffens
Jonathan Swift
Alexis de Tocqueville
T.H. White
Tom Wolfe
Writers Known for Fiction and Nonfiction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Zora Neale Hurston
Norman Mailer
George Orwell
Virginia Woolf
Naturalists, Scientists, and Adventurers
Edward Abbey
Rachel Carson
Charles Darwin
Loren Eisley
Stephen Jay Gould
William Least Heat-Moon
Verlyn Klinkenborg
Barry Lopez
Peter Matthiessen
Margaret Mead
Carl Sagan